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Inequalities for the inverses of the polygamma functions

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2017-05-19 v1

Abstract

We provide an elementary proof of the left side inequality and improve the right inequality in \bigg[\frac{n!}{x-(x^{-1/n}+\alpha)^{-n}}\bigg]^{\frac{1}{n+1}}&<((-1)^{n-1}\psi^{(n)})^{-1}(x) &<\bigg[\frac{n!}{x-(x^{-1/n}+\beta)^{-n}}\bigg]^{\frac{1}{n+1}}, where α=[(n1)!]1/n\alpha=[(n-1)!]^{-1/n} and β=[n!ζ(n+1)]1/n\beta=[n!\zeta(n+1)]^{-1/n}, which was proved in \cite{6}, and we prove the following inequalities for the inverse of the digamma function ψ\psi. \frac{1}{\log(1+e^{-x})}<\psi^{-1}(x)< e^{x}+\frac{1}{2}, \quad x\in\mathbb{R}. The proofs are based on nice applications of the mean value theorem for differentiation and elementary properties of the polygamma functions.

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@article{arxiv.1705.06547,
  title  = {Inequalities for the inverses of the polygamma functions},
  author = {Necdet Batir},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.06547},
  year   = {2017}
}

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